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Places like India can give you a real culture shock because of the poverty you see, and it brings you up sharply.


Terry Wogan

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TERRY PRATCHETT Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.
ELLEN TERRY Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
TERRY PRATCHETT It's not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into the enemy.
TERRY PRATCHETT The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - b...
TERRY SOUTHERN ’I'd have you lot up in front of the University authorities first thing in the morning, if it wasn...
TERRY PRATCHETT Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces
TERRY PRATCHETT It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what th...
TERRY PRATCHETT One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than...
TERRY PRATCHETT It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.
TERRY PRATCHETT Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
TERRY PRATCHETT This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.
TERRY PRATCHETT If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch.
TERRY PRATCHETT Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.
TERRY PRATCHETT Even if it's not your fault, it's your responsibility.
TERRY PRATCHETT ...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.
TERRY PRATCHETT We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.
TERRY PRATCHETT His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans --...
TERRY PRATCHETT Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
TERRY PRATCHETT Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
TERRY PRATCHETT DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.
TERRY PRATCHETT It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Li...
TERRY PRATCHETT Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some ...
TERRY PRATCHETT Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his lif...
TERRY PRATCHETT Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because—what with trolls and dwarfs and so on—species...
TERRY PRATCHETT Something Vimes had learned as a young guard drifted up from memory. If you have to look alon...
TERRY PRATCHETT Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the mus...
TERRY PRATCHETT Don't worry, it's not loaded.
TERRY KATH Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
TERRY PRATCHETT To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darknes...
TERRY PRATCHETT